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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbornborn1 ●●● S1 W1 verb 1 → be born2 → be born3 → born and bred4 → be born to do/be something5 → I wasn’t born yesterday6 → there’s one born every minute7 → be born under a lucky/unlucky star8 → be born with a silver spoon in your mouthbornborn2 adjective [only before noun] 1 → born leader/musician/teacher etc2 → born loser3 → in all your born days
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born• This meant Mr Packwood had to bottle feed him every three hours when he was first born.• Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital.• She left one dead, one born and two crippled for life, one way or the other.• Like rabbits, they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair.• A newly born child enjoys that status.• I judge you to be a born city person.• The newly born goats were kept in a pen under her bed.• He seemed to be a born leader, someone who inspired confidence and loyalty.• When I read his first essays I knew that he was a born writer.
Origin born Old English boren, past participle of beran; → BEAR1
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